TimB

It’s my understanding that he’s out of the hospital now but facing surgery and uncertain recovery. His house also got damaged by the severe storms the other day, so insult to injury.

Pray for @RevWarReenactor. I have been tasked with the unpleasant duty of informing you all that he is currently in the hospital with a severe kidney stone episode that has possibly led to kidney failure after eating a Big Arch and it’s questionable if he’s going to make it. I know some in this sub don’t see eye to eye with him but he’s still human and some things transcend message board drama.

Yesterday was only the 2nd calendar day on or after March 16th to get 6+” of snow in the past 70 years. The other was of course that day in 2018.

Official NWS obs was 6.3”. We officially got to warning level out of this thing.

Lucking into a semi-respectable March snow total from one overperforming event in what has otherwise been a torchy, April-like month is really something. That puts the official seasonal total over 50”.

Let’s put it this way. The 76 and 75 observed at DCA at 3am and 4am would be a record for those hours in April.

The crazy thing is the 76 observed on the 3am hourly at DCA would be a record April high for that hour at that site, and we’re still in the first half of March.

High of 78 ties with 2/20/2018 and 3/5/2004 for warmest high on or before 3/7, low of 60 is the 2nd warmest low on or before 3/7 behind 1/22/1906, daily mean of 69 is the warmest daily mean ever recorded at Pittsburgh on or before March 7th.

As of now, the high at PIT is either 78 or 79 depending on rounding. We have never reached 79 this early in the season.

If you throw out those two erroneous data points, the highest dewpoint ever observed at PIT prior to March 15th was 61 on 1/8/1998. We could be reaching levels of humidity on Saturday that are unprecedented so early in the season.

Awesome, I’m sure that translates to copious amounts of snow on the models and ensembles. Let me go check!

You sure you’re not thinking about 2022?

Wow highs in the upper 30s to low 40s and September equivalent sun angle. I’m pumped for winter’s last ride.

I’ll take #20 please.

PIT has also very likely clinched all 3 winter months of below normal temps, but above normal snowfall for Feb seems like a bridge too far.